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"he was the 15-y.o. lead in the school play, she was the married 40-y.o. drama teacher. In France this kind of thing is celebrated!"
"Just read that Pornhub, Redtube and Youporn are going to block access to their sites on French territory in protest of our current government's measures to protect children from seeing that shit. Good riddance! When I first saw that, I really wanted to laugh. I think they're betting on France having"
"Just goes to show how much nicer American cities could be with the tiniest bit of will, very depressing that a nation as far past its prime as France can make America look like shit."
"Melenchon and socialism in France is like the 4th most popular party, and Le Pen looks to most likely win a victory at the next French elections."
"I do have a lot of thoughts on other reasons, as someone who was an Amerifat until working as an au pair/in hostels in Spain and France. I can share my other other thoughts/experience with this if people are curious but in the interest of not ranting I will start with tea. One habit I picked up ther"
"Even the FDA says 14 drinks a week is completely safe and they have to lower the number since most people over pour. In France its 21. In Spain its 35 per week and the average lifespan is 82."
"Side note - every person here who is being a dickhead in public is Spanish or French (surprise.)"
"You're trolling has reached such a high pinnacle of art that the President of France is taking you to court for claiming that his wife is a man (lol)."
"Pushkin's wife would remarry only a few years later, and the Frenchman who had just killed Russia's national Poet in an illegal duel was spared Jail time and only ordered to leave Russia and return to France."
"Just vacationed in France for two weeks to visit family. everywhere I went was picturesque. The villages, the walkable cities, the ability to be an adult without a car, the safety in public places, the rolling hills, the food, the castles, the cathedrals, the history, every woman there is beautiful."
"France: innumerable philosophy/broader humanities minds who more or less comprise the basis of our current academic understanding of these subjects. Their cinema blew ours out of the water without even having the history to back it up. Genuine first try prodigious talent across the whole scene."
"1941, Hitler has the rest of Europe on the ropes. France have surrendered, Britain are getting smacked around Greece and North Africa and pose no real threat."
"Just as much as Italy, France, Brazil or any other country. We have distinctive food, holidays, clothing and values."
"By the way, Angola is considered safer to travel to than fucking France."
"We often mistakenly think that French people are romantic and gentlemen. When we have experienced it firsthand, we realize that they are different from what we imagined. They are used to direct communication, sometimes they speak very directly, and humor and complaining are often together. In fact, "
"the best bread in the world. the finest wines and cheeses. the most heavenly desserts. butter, garlic, and shallots/onions in everything. it's the best combination of the northern butter/meat/potato/root veg and mediterranean seafood/tomato types. add to this all the culinary contributions of the ma"
"Have been in France for the past month or so, just hanging out. You've all heard the tripe of the Europeans and BO, perhaps none more so than the french. And it's a thing. Gyms here, north to south, are horrendous."
"I went to traveling and every single spot in any area in a country has people everywhere. There's no place that is lightly populated. Anything in Italy, France, Switzerland, Thailand, Mexico, hell even Seljalandsfoss in Iceland had like a thousand people there."
"It's tragic that Charlie died but there is chaos in France, Nepal, Serbia, Greece, Bangladesh, Georgia, the Philippines, Turkey, Indonesia, Argentina… It's also strange that we're covering so much of Israel and Gaza; but not these other countries."
"She was born in Egypt, but made her fame in France. She is one of the greatest selling singers of all time."
"I had to give a class in my field to a bunch of french 20-22's year old (3 classes of 30 students) a few weeks ago and I've just received the final works that they were supposed to return.Boy it is really bad. I've been doing this since 2017 for business / web schools and every year that I teach thi"
"Why does France have such an elitist reputation despite its revolutionary history and "liberty, equality, fraternity" being its motto?"
"the celts ( real french ) believed the hair was the most spiritually important part of the body and so never cut it . something about the young , restless spiritual energy of France, her love of liberty, at this time just comes out here. anglos could never with their nation of shopkeepers stiffness,"
"I've been to every state (except Hawaii) and Germany and France. Spent thousands of dollars and a decade of time doing it. Look at peers who are married with kids now and I kinda regret it all."
"My boyfriend gave me him because I am going to study abroad in France this semester. I named him Jean-Paul"
"Guy walked in with an AK, tossed a grenade, and walked out. 'I heard a loud bang,' said Agnes Lefebvre-Paquet, a witness in her 70s. 'And I said to myself that it wasn't a firecracker. I assumed it was a neighbourhood problem.'"
"At least everybody in America feels more or less like an American. It seems like France has imported millions of people who don't feel French or are even actively hostile towards the idea of being French."
"Just wanted to brag /tell people I finally finished my master on contemporary history as a foreigner in France. I'm excited to become a teacher and be useful to society."
"Been seeing that they are all over France, now a friend just got them at a five star hotel in the US."
"No way am I letting a talented Marshal like Davout do paperwork while I'm fighting for France."
"France had a human zoo sponsored by a biscuit company in 1994"
"Every 30 minutes in France I saw the most beautiful man I had ever seen. In Spain, maybe every 3 hours. I thought I was just idealizing everything, so I would wait to come to conclusions until I could look around in my city when I got home."
"François Bayrou is a longtime French politician, who has only encountered middling success at best. Longtime mayor of a small regional city in the Pyrenees, he is also the president of the centrist formation, which accounted for very little in the broad political landscape of France until Macron cam"
"Whenever I hear people discuss european food, they always have spain up on the france/Italy tier when it really belongs with Germany and Poland or something."
"started reading sun also rises and really like it, steeling my resolve more to buy an apartment in france some day."
"When I read books written in France even by the most miserable bastards they seem to be ensconced by the human experience of community, culture, walking/activity, and knowledge in a way that's unfeasible in most of American society uniquely."
"When the regime fell a couple years back, he fled to france, where he was promptly arrested for all of this. He tried to claim functional immunity and made it to the french supreme court, before it being rejected."
"Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German"
"In college my history professor told us that we should not feel so intimidated by the French and think of them as culturally superior and the example that he came up with to make his point was that women in France don't change their underwear everyday."
"After I arrive in the south of France I get my stuff, get on a train and sit down in one of the many empty sets of 4 chairs facing each other. I decide this day is too beautiful to look at my phone. A gorgeous girl in her 20s enters. My eyes pierce hers and I smile at her."
"This twenty-movement, two-and-a-half hour piano cycle was written in Paris between March 23 and September 8, 1944, during the German occupation of France."
"I majored in French (lol I know) and while my language skills have deteriorated, I know I can practice enough to get back up to at least an intermediate level. France has a program called TAPIF for those aged 20-35 where you work in a school as a teaching assistant"
"no criminal record, legal Syrian immigrant for maximum outrage, "in the name of jesus", baby stabbing. What do you think"
"I see every other country posting online, but never france. What's up with that?"
"If it wasn't for people hyping up hennessy (which is alright at best), then brandy/cognac would be dead as a drink outside of France and South Africa."
"Moved to France in 2023 for my job and nearly two years later I'm still not feeling it here. French people are extremely culturally insular compared to Americans and it makes it nearly impossible to make friends, I'm tired of the shitty gray weather and bland food. I miss being able to walk into a b"
"Fucking grade school teacher marrying creep. Protesters keep comparing him to the Bourbon monarchy, so they clearly have it in them"
"I am at my grandmas house in a small village in France where they do a lot of bull fighting. There is a bull fight this weekend. She confirmed, they indeed do eat the meat, after letting it sit for a few days to tenderize I guess."
"Macron and France the most recent and blatant. Polling from the UK is dismal for supporting conscription."
"deleted my Reddit account over two weeks ago in addition to the dating apps, started attending a French discussion group, having a manic episode where I spend a ton of money (dior lip oil! Incredible!), met a man whom I may have a 2 month whirlwind romance with before he moves back to his country, a"
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